Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.

Light or dark, happy or sad, black or white, right or wrong there are only two strong options, the opposites and others are weak.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.

There is no retracing our steps.

Awareness returning home is awareness being enfolded by what it knows.

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.